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| 1. | a ribbon or other marker placed between the pages of a book to mark a place. |
| 2. | a bookplate. |
| book·mark (bŏŏk'märk') n. A strip of material, as of ribbon or leather, or a metal clamp, that is placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place. |
| Main Entry: | bookmark |
| Part of Speech: | v |
| Definition: | to record the location (URL) of a favorite Web site to allow quick access in the future |
| Example: | She bookmarked several news pages for reading them each morning. |
| Usage: | computing; bookmarked, bookmarking; bookmark n |
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bookmark World-Wide Web
A user's reference to a document on the World-Wide Web or other hypermedia system, usually in the form of a URL and a title or comment string.
Most World-Wide Web and Gopher browsers can save and load a file of bookmarks to allow you to quickly locate documents to which you want to refer again.
(1997-06-09)